Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jun 8;17(11):4083. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17114083.
To understand how family environment and functioning change over time during adolescence, this study examined the developmental trajectories of perceived parent-child subsystem qualities indexed by parental control and parent-child relational qualities, and the related perceived differences between fathers and mothers. Longitudinal data were collected from 2023 students in 28 high schools in Hong Kong. Among the 28 schools, five schools were in Hong Kong Island, seven in Kowloon district, and 16 in New Territories. Students were invited to respond to measures of perceived parent-child subsystem qualities in six consecutive high school years from the 2009/10 academic year. Individual Growth Curve analyses and paired -tests were used to explore the developmental trajectories of research variables and the differences between fathers and mothers. While parental behavioral control and psychological control generally declined throughout the high school years, parent-child relational quality showed a U-shaped trajectory. Parent gender significantly predicted the initial levels of all measures and changes in behavioral control and parent-child relational quality. Mothers showed higher levels of parental control and parent-child relational quality than did fathers at each time point. However, mothers showed a faster decrease in these measures than did fathers.
为了了解家庭环境和功能在青少年时期如何随时间变化，本研究考察了感知到的父母-子女子系统质量（由父母控制和父母-子女关系质量来衡量）的发展轨迹，以及与父母相关的感知差异。这项研究在香港的 28 所高中收集了 2023 名学生的纵向数据。在这 28 所学校中，有 5 所在香港岛，7 所在九龙区，16 所在新界。学生们被邀请在 2009/10 学年至 2015/16 学年的六个连续高中学年中对感知到的父母-子女子系统质量进行了回应。采用个体增长曲线分析和配对检验来探讨研究变量的发展轨迹以及父母之间的差异。虽然父母的行为控制和心理控制在整个高中阶段普遍下降，但亲子关系质量呈现出 U 形轨迹。父母性别显著预测了所有测量指标的初始水平以及行为控制和亲子关系质量的变化。母亲在每个时间点的父母控制和亲子关系质量都高于父亲，但母亲的这些指标下降速度比父亲快。
